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James Cameron, director of sci-fi classics such as The Terminator, T2 and Aliens, is calling Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, the best space film ever done. Those are big words from a man who not only changed the course of sci-fi filmmaking, but also has two of the highest grossing movies of all-time.

Warner Bros. is releasing Gravity on October 4, a bit premature for Oscar season, with serious buzz. The reviews out of Venice are staggering, providing evidence that the OMFG footage shown here wasn’t just a garage sale.

Now, Cameron is getting in on the hype, telling Variety that it’s something special, and the kind of film he personally has been waiting a long time for.“I was stunned, absolutely floored,” he says. “I think it’s the best space photography ever done, I think it’s the best space film ever done, and it’s the movie I’ve been hungry to see for an awful long time.”

But what he boasts is Bullock’s performance, one that he says is more impressive than the film’s technology that supported it. “She’s the one that had to take on this unbelievable challenge to perform it. (It was) probably no less demanding than a Cirque du Soleil performer, from what I can see.” And of the result, he says, “There’s an art to that, to creating moments that seem spontaneous but are very highly rehearsed and choreographed. Not too many people can do it. … I think it’s really important for people in Hollywood to understand what was accomplished here.”

I want to see this so badly, but the thought of free falling/floating in space with the only source of oxygen coming from some basic ass white suit makes me want to have a nervous breakdown, puke and die all at once.

After seeing the trailer, I told my sister this was a massive fear of mine. (getting lost in space)

She quickly reminded me that due to several reasons (a major one being my lack of intelligence) that I probably will never have to worry about being lost in space. Still scares the shit out of me though.

No people have been lost in space, but maybe there are dogs or primates that were shot off into space early in the space program - they would have died shortly after I would assume from lack of oxygen.